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On Friday, Time Magazine staff writer Kate Pickert published what she described in the title as a “fact check” of Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer’s reporting on the number of times President Barack Obama

In an article today on the upcoming Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL, Colin Moynihan of the New York Times alleges that Breitbart News’ Brandon Darby, who turned FBI informant and prevented left-wing activists from attacking the 2008 convention with

In a feature article published this morning, the Washington Post wrote the following about Stu White, a high school friend and classmate of Mitt Romney’s, in reference to an alleged 1965 bullying incident involving of a fellow classmate: [emphasis added] “I always enjoyed

Progressives are attempting to skewer Steven Crowder and Chris Loesch, claiming that they used the “N” word when saying the word “knickers” in a satirical video about the loss of American exceptionalism. At no time did the duo use the “N” word, and to

Reuters this morning published a grossly inaccurate story on Senator Marco Rubio. Among the eight fallacies: Rubio also voted against Sonia Sotomayor, Obama’s Supreme Court nominee who is of Puerto Rican descent, and more recently blocked the confirmation of another

Al Jazeera was eager to promote the debunked lie that Rick Santorum compared same-sex marriage to bestiality: He has argued against same-sex marriage arguing that could open the door to other unacceptable relations, equating homosexuality with bestiality or pedophilia. Simply

In an article published last week, Rachel Coward of the Columbia Missourian falsely claimed that Andrew Breitbart edited videos of a controversial labor studies course at the University of Missouri in which lecturers instructed students in violent tactics, indoctrinated them

On Tuesday, December 27, FishbowlDC’s Peter Ogburn wrote the following in reference to the Daily Caller’s Michelle Fields’ hour-long appearance with Brian Lamb on C-Span: [emphasis added] As the interview winds down, Lamb asks where Michelle would like to see

Yesterday, in an article titled “Mo. crackdown on taping lectures shows digital divide over academic freedom, student privacy,” the Associated Press falsely claimed that Big Government edited controversial footage of a University of Missouri labor studies course. From the article:

Sunday on ABC”s “This Week” Nancy Pelosi shamelessly repeated the debunked lie that the tea party “spit” on congressmen during the walk to sign the health care law in spring of 2010. The thing is, Pelosi’s story never happened. We’ve

In an Associated Press article published last night, Becky Bohrer writes the following: [emphasis ours] [Governor Sarah Palin’s attorney] John Tiemessen, in a letter to the publisher of Crown Publishing Group Monday, cites an email that author Joe McGinniss allegedly

While on Lebanese television, Media Matters ally Max Blumenthal fabricated several quotes and attributed them to Herman Cain. Only Blumenthal knows whether these fabrications were intentional, so as to discredit Cain maliciously, or born of Blumenthal’s poor recollection ability. Let’s

Earlier this evening Reuters reported, as per Senator Jon Kyl, that Republicans had agreed to a compromise on tax hikes: They also published an account on their website. They were wrong. Kyle specifically detailed how the revenue would come from

Last night we reported that Politico had falsely attributed an attack on Michele Bachmann to Sarah Palin, and now Politico has corrected the “error”: An editing error caused a false attribution in an earlier version of this column. A comment

KTLA’s recent article on Congressman Anthony Weiner’s x-rated photo is incorrect on how the photo came to be published on the Internet. Breitbart said he was not going to publish the photo to his website, BigGovernment.com, but it’s not clear

Politico knew they likely wouldn’t get a quote from Sarah Palin for the latest hit piece they published so they made one up. One of the authors is the former chairman of the Democratic Party of Virgina. Politico wrote: Will

Tim Barker at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch falsely claimed that the exculpatory portion of Shirley Sherrod’s remarks were not included in the original posting or video originally posted on Big Government. Barker writes: This isn’t the first controversy created by

In an April 29, 2011 item by Scott Jaschik, Inside High Ed published this false statement provided by University of Missouri professor Judy Ancel: Ancel, the other instructor, said in an interview that she works on annual contracts and that

A week ago we asked Media Matters to correct their inaccurate information in their post about Planned Parenthood offering mammograms. While we believe that the elements of a news story must be factually accurate to constitute as news and not

Big Journalism on Wednesday reported that the New York Times finally conceded to correcting their article on Brandon Darby’s involvement with an FBI case of domestic terrorism. While NPR fights for public funding on the basis of its news reporting,

Alternate headline: NYT Issues Correction After Taking Word of Domestic Terrorist Over FBI Informant Second alternate headline: How to Get NYT to Correct a Provably False Smear Against an American Patriot: 1) Sue Them… *** Recently Big Journalism called for